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JONATHAN EDELMANN University of Florida • Department of Religion JONATHAN EDELMANN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF RELIGION University of Florida • Department of Religion 107 Anderson Hall • Room 106 • Gainesville FL 32611 (352) 273-2932 • [email protected] EDUCATION PH.D. | 2008 | UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD | RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND THEOLOGY Dissertation When Two Worldviews Meet: A Dialogue Between the Bhāgavata Purāṇa & Contemporary Biology Supervisors Prof. John Hedley Brooke, Oxford University Prof. Francis Clooney, Harvard University M.ST. | 2003 | UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD | SCIENCE AND RELIGION Thesis The Value of Science: Perspectives of Philosophers of Science, Stephen Jay Gould and the Bhāgavata-Purāṇa’s Sāṁkhya B.A. | 2002 | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA–SANTA BARBARA | PHILOSOPHY Graduated with honors, top 2.5% of class POSITIONS ! 2015-present, Assistant Professor of Religion, Department of Religion, University of Florida ! 2012-present, Section Editor for Hindu Theology, International Journal of Hindu Studies ! 2014-present, Consulting Editor, Journal of the American Philosophical Association ! 2013-2015, Honors College Faculty Fellow, Mississippi State University ! 2010-2012, American Academy of Religion, Luce Fellow in Comparative Theology and Theologies of Religious Pluralism ! 2009-2015, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy & Religion, MSU ! 2008-2009, Post Doctoral Fellow, Harris Manchester College, Oxford University ! 2007-2008, Religious Studies Teacher, St Catherine’s School, Bramley, UK RECENT AWARDS ! 2016, Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida ! 2015, Thirteenth Dharma Academy of North America (DĀNAM) Symposium Book Award in Conjunction with Tākshaśīla Institute for Excellence in Indic Studies: The Gajinder and Jyoti Gandhi Book Award. ! 2011, John Templeton Foundation Award for Theological Promise: Forschungszentrum Internationale und Interdisziplinäre Theologie – Universität Heidelberg Jonathan Edelmann • September 2016 1 CURRICULUM VITAE PUBLICATIONS Current Projects • Submitted and accepted o “Introduction to Stotra.” Editor of issue of the International Journal of Hindu Studies o “Greater Vedānta.” Editor of issue of the International Journal of Hindu Studies. o “The Dilemma of American Hinduism: Problem and Solution,” Prabuddha Bhārata • Submitted and under review o Religions of South Asia: An Introduction, “Hindu Dharma.” Routledge Press. Book Chapter. o “The Three or Four Yoga-s in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava theology.” Article. o “Introducing the Bhagavad Gītā: Text and Commentary, Teacher, and Student.” Book Chapter. Oxford University Press. • In Progress o Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Entries on the Bhāgavata Purāṇa and Śrīdhara Svāmin o Sources of Indian Tradition, “Chapter on Moksha.” Columbia University Press. Book (1) 2012, Hindu Theology and Biology: The Bhāgavata Purāṇa and Contemporary Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Theological Monographs Series). ISBN 978–0-19–964154–3. ! Winner of the 2011 John Templeton Foundation Award for Theological Promise from the University of Heidelberg ! Winner of the 2015 Dharma Academy of North America Book Award ! Nominated for 2016 Hindu-Christian Society Book Award ! Reviewed by Edwin Bryant (Journal of the American Academy of Religion), David Gosling (Zygon), Thomas Ellis (Zygon), Varadaraja V. Raman (Zygon), Andrew McGarrity (Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies), Rahul Peter Das (Religious Studies Review) Journal Articles (10) 2015, “The Cause of Devotion in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Theology: Devotion (bhakti) as the Result of Spontaneously (yadṛcchayā) Meeting a Devotee (sādhu-saṅga).” Journal of the American Oriental Society. Vol. 135, No. 1. pp.49-69. (9) 2014 “Tradition and Innovation.” International Journal of Hindu Studies. Special Issue on Hindu Theology. Vol 18, Issue 45, pp.1-6. September. DOI 10.1007/s11407-014-9155-9 (8) 2014, “When Stones Float and Mud Speaks: Scriptural Authority and Personal Experience in Jīvagosvāmin’s Sarvasaṃvādinī.” Co-authored with Satya Narayana Dasa. Journal of Hindu Studies. 7 (1): 70-97. doi:10.1093/jhs/hiu003 Jonathan Edelmann • September 2016 2 CURRICULUM VITAE (7) 2013, “Becoming Different: Why Education is Required for Responding to Globalism Dharmically.” Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies. Vol 26, Article 5, pp. 17-27. (6) 2013, “Hindu Theology as Churning the Latent.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Vol 81, No 2, pp.427-466. doi: 10.1093/jaarel/lfs132 (5) 2012, “The Role of Hindu Theology in the Religion and Science Dialogue.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. Vol. 47, No. 3, pp.624-642, September. (4) 2010, “Introduction: Vaishnavism and the Environment.” Journal of Vaishnava Studies. Guest editors: Jonathan B. Edelmann and Abhisheka Ghosh. Vol 18, No 2, Summer. (3) 2009, “Argument and Persuasion: A Brief Study of Kīrtana in the Bhāgavata Purāna.” Journal of Vaishnava Studies. Vol 17, No 2, Spring, pp. 37-56. (2) 2007, “Setting Criteria for an Ideal Reincarnation Research.” Journal of Consciousness Studies. Co-authored with Professor of Psychiatry William Bernet, Vanderbilt University. Vol 14, No 12, pp92-101. (1) 2007, “The Uniqueness of Biological Self-Organization: Challenging the Darwinian Paradigm.” Biology and Philosophy. September, Vol 22, pp579-601. Co-authored with Professor of Genetics Michael Denton. Book Chapters (3) 2014, “Agency in the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Tradition.” Co-authored with Satyanaraya Dasa. Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy. Edited by Edwin Bryant and Matthew Dasti. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp.279-307. (2) 2013, “Chapter Three: Dialogues on Natural Theology: The Bhāgavata Purāṇa’s Cosmology as Religious Practice.” The Bhāgavata Purāṇa: Sacred Text and Living Tradition. Edited by Ravi M Gupta and Kenneth R Valpey. New York, New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 48-62. (1) 2011, “You Are Here: Purāṇic Cosmology as Cosmic Locator.” Nature & Culture. Volume XIV, Part 1: History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, General Editor D P Chattopadhyaya, Volume Editor Roddam Narasimha, and Associate Editor Sangeetha Menon. New Delhi: Centre for Studies in Civilizations. ISBN: 81-87568-49-4. Book Reviews (6) 2016, Jīva Gosvāmin. 2014. Śrī Bhagavat Sandarbha: God—His Qualities, Abode and Associates. Sanskrit Text with English Translation and Jīva Toṣaṇī Commentary. Translated and edited by Satyanarayana Dasa. Vrindavan, India: Jiva Institute of Vaishnava Studies. Journal of Dharma and Hindu Studies Volume 1 Number 1. (5) 2013, One Religion Too Many: The Religiously Comparative Reflections of a Comparatively Religious Hindu, by Arvind Sharma. Journal of Hindu Studies. Vol 6 Issue 1, pp.91-93. (4) 2012, Hindu Perspectives on Evolution: Darwin, Dharma and Design, by C. Machenzie Brown. Bulletin of School of Oriental and African Studies. 76/1 (February). Jonathan Edelmann • September 2016 3 CURRICULUM VITAE (3) 2011, Hinduism Hermeneutics and Hindu Thought: Toward a Fusion of Horizons, edited by Rita Sherma and Arvind Sharma. Journal of Hindu Studies. Vol. 4. No. 2, pp. 207-209. (2) 2011, Krishna’s Mandala: Bhagavata Religion and Beyond. By D. Dennis Hudson. The Journal of Asian Studies. Volume 70, Issue 01, pp. 277-278. (1) 2009, Irreducible Mind: Towards a Psychology for the 21st, by Edward Kelly et. al. Network Review: Journal of the Scientific and Medical Network. No 99, Spring, pp. 49-50. PRESENTATIONS Interviews 2013, 20 June. Documentary Interview: “The Mystery of Reincarnation.” Flute Song Media. Invited University Lectures 2016, March 29, “You must meet a devotee”: Conversion in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism as accepting bhakti-yoga. Religious Conversions: A Worships. Hosted by the University of Florida’s History and Religion Departments. Invited by Robert Kawashima. 2014, October 10, “An Argument for Reconciliation: Consciousness in the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Tradition and Contemporary Biological Theory.” Jñāna-saṅgama, Edison, New Jersey. Invited by Sri Sugunendra Tirtha Swamiji, head of Puthige Monastery, Udupi, India, 29th Pontiff of the Monastery established by His Holiness Sri Madhva-acharya (13th century). 2013, Sept 12, “Serving a Neighbor in Need: A Hindu Perspective.” Whitehouse Presidential Interfaith Event. Invited by Assistant Dean Cade Smith, Mississippi State University. 2013, June 13, “Hindu Theology and Contemporary Scientific Theory,” Jagiellonian University Insitute for Scientific Study of Religion, Krakow, Poland. Invited by Dr Robertem Czyżykowskim. 2013, June 12, “It’s Nothing New: Jīva Gosvāmin’s Argument for Transformation in the Tattva Sandarbha and Sarvasaṃvādinī,” Seminar called “Frontiers, twilight zones, shared spaces.” Institute of Oriental Studies, Jagiellonian University, Department of Indology, Krakow, Poland. Invited by Prof Cezary Galewicz. 2013, February 4, “The Bhāgavata Purāṇa’s Theology of Self,” lecture in the Jīva Institute for Vaishnava Studies, Vṛndāvana, India. Invited by Dr Satyanarayana Dāsa. 2012, November 9, “By Grace Alone: Viśvanātha Cakravartin’s definition of yadṛcchā,” Center for the Study of World Religion, Comparative Theology Group, Harvard Divinity School. Invited by Axel Marc Takács. 2012, November 8, “Churning the Ocean of Milk: Viśvanātha Cakravartin on Bhāgavata Purāṇa 1.1.1,” Center for the Study of World Religion, Harvard Divinity School. Invited by Prof Francis Clooney. Jonathan Edelmann • September 2016 4 CURRICULUM VITAE 2012, October 28, “Hindu Theology in the Science and Religion Dialogue,” University of Heidelberg, John Templeton Foundation.
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